You quote Bruce Bennett of Rand Corporation as stating "If the United States leaves, it won't come back" was his prediction, in the event that the US and North Korea sign a peace treaty."
He is simply warning, not casting a curse, that Korea is splintering the US-Korea alliance by its ambivalence toward the US As a passionate Korean-American citizen, from this side of the Pacific, Korea comes across as a self-centered, unreliable, ungrateful, irrational, unruly, vociferous, entitled "ally."
I would like to remind you that only the US military intervention, with its treasure and blood, "scooped" Korea out from the sea of Communism, so naturally imposed upon it by the virtue of its unfortunate geography, and made it into what is today. The US owes Korea nothing. Korea owes the US "hugely."
The regional situation calls for drawing a line in the sand. Korea needs to throw away its childish ways and learn to tell its foes from its friends. China and North Korea are its mortal enemies. The US and Japan are its friends. No two ways about it. For thousands of years Korea was nothing but a proverbial "shrimp" wedged between China, Russia and Japan. Just consider the annual payments of gifts, goods and "women" to China that went on for centuries. Only in the last 70 years, thanks to the US, Korea has been flourishing.
Unfortunately, Korean media in general are blatantly biased, leftist, anti-American and lead the ignorant "mass of people" into cheap, irrational, emotional waves, rather than well-thought-out, calm decision-making based on true national security needs.
Do you recall candle-lit hysteria against American beef recently? Did the US retaliate against Korea, as China is doing now? Did you learn anything from the experience? Did you hear of any apologies offered by the media or main organizer of the movement?
The persistent raising of the "comfort women" issue may in your eyes appear "noble" and "moral." It is neither. It only makes Korea a small, petty and vindictive country in the eyes of other nations, especially after so many apologies, compensation and treaties by and with Japan. Do not fool yourself that this is a winning moral issue outside of Korea.
Impeachment of President Park Geun-hye as a legal process, irrespective of its merits, was appalling to me. All I could see was a mob lynching and condemnation before all the facts were legalistically proven.
My passionate plea to you is for you to open your eyes and see what is happening around you in your neighborhood and lead your people out of the leftist insanity. It is a very perilous time. As the situation is evolving in Korea, the American people would have absolutely no problem in severing military ties with such an unreliable "ally" as Korea. As Trump said during the campaign "America wants to be a friend with Korea, but Koreans appear not to want it." His statement, which is not repeated in Korea, tells me a lot about his attitude towards Japan versus Korea.
In the end, if the US withdraws from Korea it will be on account of the attitude of the Korean people, like you, and not because of US betrayal.
With regards,
Won Lee
wk1002@aol.com
He is simply warning, not casting a curse, that Korea is splintering the US-Korea alliance by its ambivalence toward the US As a passionate Korean-American citizen, from this side of the Pacific, Korea comes across as a self-centered, unreliable, ungrateful, irrational, unruly, vociferous, entitled "ally."
I would like to remind you that only the US military intervention, with its treasure and blood, "scooped" Korea out from the sea of Communism, so naturally imposed upon it by the virtue of its unfortunate geography, and made it into what is today. The US owes Korea nothing. Korea owes the US "hugely."
The regional situation calls for drawing a line in the sand. Korea needs to throw away its childish ways and learn to tell its foes from its friends. China and North Korea are its mortal enemies. The US and Japan are its friends. No two ways about it. For thousands of years Korea was nothing but a proverbial "shrimp" wedged between China, Russia and Japan. Just consider the annual payments of gifts, goods and "women" to China that went on for centuries. Only in the last 70 years, thanks to the US, Korea has been flourishing.
Unfortunately, Korean media in general are blatantly biased, leftist, anti-American and lead the ignorant "mass of people" into cheap, irrational, emotional waves, rather than well-thought-out, calm decision-making based on true national security needs.
Do you recall candle-lit hysteria against American beef recently? Did the US retaliate against Korea, as China is doing now? Did you learn anything from the experience? Did you hear of any apologies offered by the media or main organizer of the movement?
The persistent raising of the "comfort women" issue may in your eyes appear "noble" and "moral." It is neither. It only makes Korea a small, petty and vindictive country in the eyes of other nations, especially after so many apologies, compensation and treaties by and with Japan. Do not fool yourself that this is a winning moral issue outside of Korea.
Impeachment of President Park Geun-hye as a legal process, irrespective of its merits, was appalling to me. All I could see was a mob lynching and condemnation before all the facts were legalistically proven.
My passionate plea to you is for you to open your eyes and see what is happening around you in your neighborhood and lead your people out of the leftist insanity. It is a very perilous time. As the situation is evolving in Korea, the American people would have absolutely no problem in severing military ties with such an unreliable "ally" as Korea. As Trump said during the campaign "America wants to be a friend with Korea, but Koreans appear not to want it." His statement, which is not repeated in Korea, tells me a lot about his attitude towards Japan versus Korea.
In the end, if the US withdraws from Korea it will be on account of the attitude of the Korean people, like you, and not because of US betrayal.
With regards,
Won Lee
wk1002@aol.com
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